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Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films
| العنوان: | Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films |
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| المؤلفون: | Alan R. Bowman, Alvaro Rodríguez Echarri, Fatemeh Kiani, Fadil Iyikanat, Ted V. Tsoulos, Joel D. Cox, Ravishankar Sundararaman, F. Javier García de Abajo, Giulia Tagliabue |
| المصدر: | Light: Science & Applications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature Publishing Group, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Applied optics. Photonics LCC:Optics. Light |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Applied optics. Photonics, TA1501-1820, Optics. Light, QC350-467 |
| الوصف: | Abstract Luminescence constitutes a unique source of insight into hot carrier processes in metals, including those in plasmonic nanostructures used for sensing and energy applications. However, being weak in nature, metal luminescence remains poorly understood, its microscopic origin strongly debated, and its potential for unraveling nanoscale carrier dynamics largely unexploited. Here, we reveal quantum-mechanical effects in the luminescence emanating from thin monocrystalline gold flakes. Specifically, we present experimental evidence, supported by first-principles simulations, to demonstrate its photoluminescence origin (i.e., radiative emission from electron/hole recombination) when exciting in the interband regime. Our model allows us to identify changes to the measured gold luminescence due to quantum-mechanical effects as the gold film thickness is reduced. Excitingly, such effects are observable in the luminescence signal from flakes up to 40 nm in thickness, associated with the out-of-plane discreteness of the electronic band structure near the Fermi level. We qualitatively reproduce the observations with first-principles modeling, thus establishing a unified description of luminescence in gold monocrystalline flakes and enabling its widespread application as a probe of carrier dynamics and light-matter interactions in this material. Our study paves the way for future explorations of hot carriers and charge-transfer dynamics in a multitude of material systems. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2047-7538 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2047-7538 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41377-024-01408-2 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/3734de36a9df47aeb649c113acf51628 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.3734de36a9df47aeb649c113acf51628 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20477538 |
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41377-024-01408-2 |